A long established retailer whose founder and family are still involved in the day to day. Culture is driven of the philosophy of the customer is queen and doing good is good business. I joined in 2008 and worked through a sustained period of change for the company which had seen sustained aggressive growth for 40 years but had not invested in the future. So big initiatives were centralising distribution, centralising buying, centralising marketing, implementing SAP, launching a loyalty programme and becoming more professional in ways of working leading to cultural change. As a result every day was challenging with great highs and deep lows but immensely rewarding to see the business thriving. The impact of the family is material in a positive way with a lot of the founding culture remaining in the organisation. The hardest part of the job was the cultural change required to implement the change. The business was moving from a fully decentralised organisation to centralised with regional focus. This was difficult for some as most of the colleagues had been with the business for many years.

Pulling and updating reports and interacting with master data teams and ensuring all the master data is correct.Do buyers feedback and demonstrating why such products were not delivered in a specific time.

Their management is friendly is easy to talk with them, easy to work with your colligues because they don't mind working as a team, and you are free to work at any positon as long as you goin to ask your manager or supervisor ofwhich that helps in gaining expirience in other positions.

Busy environment, and i also learned a lot of good customer quality service, management is so lovely and excellent, the hardest part is when you don't get someone to re-leave you, to learned new things.

When you work at pick n pay you have to be friendly with customers and staff and always keep on smiling so that you can enjoy your work Sometimes you have to put aside your problem when you work with people

This is and environment for you to work and not make friends. You get to work with young and old so sometimes you could feel left out. The company has great benefits which you will end up enjoying in the long run.

Pick n Pay was fun. The pressure of customer orders being out on time and other bakery products to be top quality with all the magic that happens in the production line only challenges you to be on top of your game. Customer satisfaction is the reward for all the hard work that happens in any Bakery especially at Pick n Pay.

As a cashier at pick n pay I was working under a whole lots of pressure you had to deal with different types of customers . The main thing we as cashiers had to focus on was customer service and always had a smile on your face. All pressure was on the cashiers especially the management team They always focused on us as frontline cashiers reason being we worked with customers n the money of the shop so all pressure in the whole of the store n focus was mostly on us

Pros

15min tea then a 1hour lunch then u get your last tea before the early shift leaves

it is an extremely busy industry and require a lot of energy and tender care to customers. a little smile can go a long way, therefore it requires someone patient and enthusiastic, in which i had all that.

It really helped me to pay rent while trying to complete my matric which I unfortunately didn't make it at the end of the year and I wish I could work more time than I had but it was a part time job poster under an agent

Typically I would walk onto the floor and check my shelves , then start by cleaning the shelves , then get stock from the back to pack. The important thing was to remember to arrange the shelf on the expiration date basis